Ninety Seconds of Analysis from Ed Rollins
Peter Robinson ·
Jan 21 at 6:15pm
Two observations about this clip from Fox News earlier this evening:
1. My old friend from the Reagan White House, Ed Rollins, makes a lot of sense
2. Gingrich already has enough of a campaign organized to get this clip edited and up on YouTube within minutes of its being broadcast.
But have a listen. Ed knows a lot.
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Jul '10
Re: Ninety Seconds of Analysis from Ed Rollins
To connect your threads, Peter, apparently a load of Conservative and GOP Establishment commentators think Ed Rollins is an idiot. But these folks are good Christians and I'm sure they'll attend services or Mass tomorrow and realize the error of their ways.
Mar '11
Re: Ninety Seconds of Analysis from Ed Rollins
I bet Michelle Bachman was watching that and thought: If only I'd hired Ed Rollins...
Oh yeah.
Well, I'm sure she was thinking something about Ed...
Edited on Jan 21 at 7:04pmJun '10
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Romney has the presence of someone that most of us have worked for, at one time or another--the boss' son. He could be a very smart fellow, and deserve to be where he is, but in the minds of many he never paid enough dues. He walked the company tightrope, like the rest of us, but HE had a net. We didn't.
Dec '10
Re: Ninety Seconds of Analysis from Ed Rollins
Ed Rollins didn't do much for Michelle Bachmann. But that doesn't mean his analysis is wrong.
The scale of Newt's win is surprising to me. That he was able to take away from Romney ten points, in the same week Huntsman dropped out and endorsed Mitt, is an indictment of Romney's weakness as a candidate.
I also look at the Real Clear Politics poll histories in South Carolina and Florida. Newt had a big surge in December in South Carolina, then fell off well behind Romney, and came back to achieve a vote total almost matching his December peak.
In Florida, Newt likewise had a big surge in December and then fell off well behind Romney. Anyone claiming that Florida is Romney territory would do well to consider the parallels.
Sep '10
Re: Ninety Seconds of Analysis from Ed Rollins
I'm watching Newt live and he's hammering the Keystone Pipeline like President Obama's head is a hollow oil drum.
Jun '10
Re: Ninety Seconds of Analysis from Ed Rollins
Newt was a "drill baby, drill" guy from the start. No humor intended here. Just a fact.
Dec '10
Re: Ninety Seconds of Analysis from Ed Rollins
I just caught part of Newt's speech...I wish that was Newt all the time.
May '10
Re: Ninety Seconds of Analysis from Ed Rollins
Brit Hume just said the same thing about the Republican establishment fearing Newt.
Dec '10
Re: Ninety Seconds of Analysis from Ed Rollins
I just want to thank the voters of South Carolina for keeping the dream of a brokered convention alive for another 10 days. Thank you!
Sep '10
Re: Ninety Seconds of Analysis from Ed Rollins
The peasants are revolting, aren't they?
Jul '10
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There is no brokered convention. There are no brokers.
May '10
Re: Ninety Seconds of Analysis from Ed Rollins
"He is the conservative alternative to Romney"
There are a lot of us out here who think Santorum is more conservative and more reliably so.
This ain't over.
Sep '10
Re: Ninety Seconds of Analysis from Ed Rollins
I watched the Romney concession speech and thought it was gracious, serviceable, and even bordered on genuine at times. Afterwards, I thought I would be very comfortable supporting him as the nominee.
After watching Newt, I'm ready to spell "Newt!" on my roof so Google earth can broadcast it. Tomorrow, something may come out so whacky that I have to turpentine my roof.
I really hope Rollins is wrong, and the establishment backs the flock off. Let these two guys battle it out and see who wins.
It was the Tea Partiers who started shoving back on Obama and Congress when they were greasing up Obamacare (and the establishment experts were hiding under their desks). Now that the foks are getting a chance to pick the guy to/for whom they will be called on by this same establishment to donate money, hand out leaflets, put signs in their yards, work phone banks, walk in parades, etc. it's time for the establishment to show some gratitude, and let this play out.
Dec '10
Re: Ninety Seconds of Analysis from Ed Rollins
The problem with Brit Hume citing Newt's favorable/unfavorable numbers is that he's making the implicit assumption that those numbers are unchanging and unchangeable.
It's a dead certainty that Romney's favorable/unfavorable numbers will deteriorate as November approaches, if he's the Republican nominee: he'll have the full weight of the MSM and the Democrat machine painting him as a greedy pig. At the same time, Newt will have the opportunity to make his case and show people who don't know him except from Democrat propaganda that he didn't get that tummy on a diet of baby under glass.
I'd expect their favorable/unfavorable ratings to converge, exactly as Obama's will converge to reflect voting intentions just before Election Day.
Nov '10
Re: Ninety Seconds of Analysis from Ed Rollins
Newt has passion. (ba da bing) but really. I am drawn to it. I always have been. And he has made big changes in this country. That is a track record.
My conservative sister HATES Newt. I will try to engage her in conversation about that tomorrow. As for me, I’m not looking for a husband. Yes, character matters and breaking an oath is a huge deal. And arrogance is a huge deal. Newt has hubris and arrogance in spades.
But what I’m looking for right now is someone with the balls to take this hulking vessel called The United States of America and steer her off the rocks. I don’t much care about anything else.
Edited on Jan 21 at 7:44pmDec '10
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PTomanovich:
I really hope Rollins is wrong, and the establishment backs the flock off. Let these two guys battle it out and see who wins.
It was the Tea Partiers who started shoving back on Obama and Congress when they were greasing up Obamacare (and the establishment experts were hiding under their desks).
The TEA Party and Newt are breaking those Establishment members' rice bowls. When the TEA Party and Newt demonstrate that the Establishment pundits and consultants are out of touch with current reality, their employers will decide that they need to turn to a new generation of pundits and consultants.
Case in point: Sarah Palin on Fox News. The more she calls it right, the more she puts at risk the gigs of those who get it more and more wrong.
Case in point: Newt's original campaign team. Jumping ship, denouncing Newt as a bad candidate, and joining Team Perry proved how brilliant they were... for a short while. Now I'm pretty sure their quote is a lot lower than it was a year ago.
When there's a threat to a person's mealticket, they'll fight no-holds-barred to keep it.
Dec '10
Re: Ninety Seconds of Analysis from Ed Rollins
katievs: "He is the conservative alternative to Romney"
There are a lot of us out here who think Santorum is more conservative and more reliably so.
This ain't over. · 18 minutes ago
Unfortunately for Santorum (to whom I donated after Iowa), he hasn't capitalized on his Iowa win. He did as badly as Newt in New Hampshire, and going into what should have been very friendly territory in South Carolina, it's a big disappointment that he only managed less than half Newt's vote there.
Santorum has to win Florida outright to stay in the race. He can either go big there and spend all his remaining campaign funds in an all-or-nothing bet, assuming that donors will flock to him after a win. Or he can be parsimonious and campaign there on the cheap with the idea of having money to go on in March -- but if he doesn't win Florida under those circumstances, he won't be able to make a case for running a cheap campaign going forward.
I don't see South Carolina giving Santorum the boost he needs to win Florida.
Nov '10
Re: Ninety Seconds of Analysis from Ed Rollins
Stuart Creque
Case in point: Newt's original campaign team. Jumping ship, denouncing Newt as a bad candidate, and joining Team Perry proved how brilliant they were... for a short while. Now I'm pretty sure their quote is a lot lower than it was a year ago.
Yeah! Seems to me that the pundits that get it wrong never get called on it. That made tonight's Krauthammer/Williams "wrong" prediction on Fox pretty funny. But really. The experts are very often not right. They are like weathermen - rarely right but never in doubt.
Jan '11
Re: Ninety Seconds of Analysis from Ed Rollins
A candidate needs two things: ideas and organization.
We have two half-candidates right now. Newt has ideas, Mitt has the organization.
Obama has a formidable organization. His ideas are laughable, and often unconstitutional. The Romney argument is that he can beat Obama because he can match the money and organization, and his ideas aren't as bad.
Newt's argument is that good ideas beat organization anyway.
Would have been nice to have a candidate with both, but right now, I'm inclined to want Newt's argument to win ... even when the cynic in me worries that Romney's argument might wind up being true.
Oct '10
Re: Ninety Seconds of Analysis from Ed Rollins
Stuart Creque
PTomanovich:
I really hope Rollins is wrong, and the establishment backs the flock off. Let these two guys battle it out and see who wins.
It was the Tea Partiers who started shoving back on Obama and Congress when they were greasing up Obamacare (and the establishment experts were hiding under their desks).
The TEA Party and Newt are breaking those Establishment members' rice bowls.
When there's a threat to a person's mealticket, they'll fight no-holds-barred to keep it.
Amen, Stuart. Establishment Republicans will offer neither justice nor mercy. The rest of us need to understand this and plan accordingly. It’s all-out war from here to the convention. Anyone fighting ‘fair’ will lose. Newt knows this better than most. He fought fair until Romney went ugly in Iowa. Now Romney knows what a counterpunch feels like. He should quickly get used to it. His cash helps, but won’t necessarily overcome Newt’s forensic skills. Words and passion are still mightier than checkbooks and consensus-seeking in most jurisdictions.
Edited on Jan 21 at 8:08pm